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| author |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-10-01 11:12:13 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-10-01 11:12:13 -0700 |
| commit | 7687b80a4f5a178fe292d071c91ebf273ebe12db (patch) | |
| tree | cc5091575aed17806f7cb1efb1ceec86c39ff8b9 /Documentation | |
| parent | ac07f5c3cb0cf19258c55cdf210aa4ac91ca7330 (diff) | |
| parent | 39ba5010d349109e53eaf9819bebe3f501bb5edf (diff) | |
Merge branch 'x86-mce-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86/MCE update from Ingo Molnar:
"Various MCE robustness enhancements.
One of the changes adds CMCI (Corrected Machine Check Interrupt) poll
mode on Intel Nehalem+ CPUs, which mode is automatically entered when
the rate of messages is too high - and exited once the storm is over.
An MCE events storm will roughly look like this:
[ 5342.740616] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
[ 5342.746501] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
[ 5342.757971] CMCI storm detected: switching to poll mode
[ 5372.674957] CMCI storm subsided: switching to interrupt mode
This should make such events more survivable"
* 'x86-mce-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/mce: Provide boot argument to honour bios-set CMCI threshold
x86, MCE: Remove unused defines
x86, mce: Enable MCA support by default
x86/mce: Add CMCI poll mode
x86/mce: Make cmci_discover() quiet
x86: mce: Remove the frozen cases in the hotplug code
x86: mce: Split timer init
x86: mce: Serialize mce injection
x86: mce: Disable preemption when calling raise_local()
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt index c54b4f503e2..de38429beb7 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt @@ -50,6 +50,13 @@ Machine check monarchtimeout: Sets the time in us to wait for other CPUs on machine checks. 0 to disable. + mce=bios_cmci_threshold + Don't overwrite the bios-set CMCI threshold. This boot option + prevents Linux from overwriting the CMCI threshold set by the + bios. Without this option, Linux always sets the CMCI + threshold to 1. Enabling this may make memory predictive failure + analysis less effective if the bios sets thresholds for memory + errors since we will not see details for all errors. nomce (for compatibility with i386): same as mce=off |